William Gilbert Quotes

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

Man is nature's sole mistake.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.

O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.

Philosophy is for the few.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.